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To everyone who joined these forums at some point, and got discouraged by the negativity and left after a while (or even got literally scared off): I'm sorry.

I wasn't good enough at encouraging people to be kinder, and removing people who refuse to be kind. Encouraging people is hard, and removing people creates conflict, and I hate conflict... so that's why I wasn't better at it.

I was a very, very sensitive teen. The atmosphere of this forum as it is now, if it had existed in 1996, would probably have upset me far more than it would have helped.

I can handle quite a lot of negativity and even abuse now, but that isn't the point. I want to help people. I want to help the people who need it the most, and I want to help people like the 1996 version of me.

I'm still figuring out the best way to do that, but as it is now, these forums are doing more harm than good, and I can't keep running them.

Thank you to the few people who have tried to understand my point of view so far. I really, really appreciate you guys. You are beautiful people.

Everyone else: If after everything I've said so far, you still don't understand my motivations, I think it's unlikely that you will. We're just too different. Maybe someday in the future it might make sense, but until then, there's no point in arguing about it. I don't have the time or the energy for arguing anymore. I will focus my time and energy on people who support me, and those who need help.

-SoulRiser

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The thing's happening on this site have reaches an unprecedented level. There have been countless opportunities for SoulRiser to save this site, but, instead, she secluded herself in her own imaginary word, refuses to listen to the people who make up this site, and now's she's acting like a little boy, pointing fingers around and calling people racist. Soul, do you even know what this site stands for? It stand for freedom, rebellion, it's anti-conformity, anti-totalitarianism; yet you spread propaganda like wildfire to support your own views. You started banning people who disagreed with you, you've gone soft in the head. I guess the strain of moderating this site has finally soured you up.

You were to lazy to moderate this site anymore after you've banned countless admins, so you brought on some perverted, emotionally-unstable creep to raise hell on this site; but after the community rebelled against Steve, you got up of your lazy ass and decided to pollute this site with bullshit. You've but up huge banners on the site to confuse new-comers into believing already-disputed, and hitherto unproven allegations against some of the elites and best members of this site. This site is the antithesis of what it originally stood for; now you can be compared to the likes of Napoleon(Animal Farm), Big Brother(1984), and Mustapha Mond(Brave New World): the kind of corrupt leader from fiction which this site rebelled against. This site used to be the nexus of all smart, anti-authoritarian people, but now it's an apex of conformity and brainwashing.

Soul, you even disabled comments to argue with your cute little poster on the top of this page. Those two commandments on the top of the page are a fucking disgrace to this site. Soul, it's either you're with us, or against us. Your choice.

P.S. Unlike you, I left people to the chance to debate my views in the comments.

"Then it was straight to the 40 ouncers/ slapping teachers and jacking off in front of my counselors." As the World Turns - Eminem.

"A man is a success if gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between does whatever he does what he wants to do." - Bob Dylan.

"A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong." - Orson Welles.

"That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange eons, even death may die." - H.P. Lovecraft.

"I became insane, with long intervals of painful sanity." Edgar Allan Poe.

Steve and Soul are on this laughable quest to get rid of people they think are "aggressive", "undermining", or "[insert negative buzzword here]". Fact of the matter is, the only relevant incident they can come up with is the Gwedin/Ury incident with the one member who backed away, while we still have a repeat-offending member (don't even try to debate that) getting off scot-free thanks to this favoritism/safe space/hugbox bullshit we have going on now.

I compared this "crusade" to a quote from The Shawshank Redemption: "I had to come to prison to be a crook." No one was truly aggressive until Steve and Soul went on their goddamn power trip, but they've gone and sparked a shitstorm that they refuse to take any responsibility for. No, clearly, it's all on us for "misunderstanding them" and being "immature."